Sorry for any crosspostings<br><br>DIGICULT 3.0 IS READY<br> WE ARE ONLINE WITH THE NEW PLATFORM<br> <a href="http://www.digicult.it/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.digicult.it/</a><br><br>Finally, after so much time and such hard work, the new platform is
ready. A new website to better browse all our old contents and to deeply
share the new ones: interviews, essays, reports, calls, books, news
& more. The Archive of our past projects, curatorships and
partnerships, and an overview to new online and offline Services. The
launch of 3 new activities: the Digimag Journal, the Digicult Agency and
the Online Publishing service. Let's check our new Board, the Editorial
Staff, our Partners, the Artists involved and the Network Authors
profiles. Any feedbacks and comments will be welcome, and thanks for
your never ending support. <br><br>More news about the first Call for Papers by the new Digimag Journal, soon. Stay tuned...<br><br>---<br><br>Since
2005, Digicult has been a cultural platform that examines the impact of
digital technologies and sciences on the arts, design, culture and
contemporary society. Marco Mancuso, critic, teacher and curator,
founded and currently directs Digicult, based on the active
participation of over 50 professionals that represent an national and
international wide Network of journalists, critics, curators, artists,
theorists, and professionals.<br><br>Digicult was born to give voice and
visibility to a new generation of interdisciplinary authors, expand
their circuits into an international context, and simultaneously break
the existing inflexible publishing rules of the press, by exploiting
potentialities of the Web, and its free networks in order to grow, to
survive and to spread.<br><br>Currently, Digicult is a web platform
updated daily by its editorial staff whose main activity is based on the
collection and publication of news of events, festivals, meetings,
workshops and exhibitions at the international level, announcements and
calls for artists, researchers and professionals, book publications,
presentations of artistic and research projects. In addition, it
produces interviews to the protagonists of the arts
scene, reports from the most significant events and critical and
theoretical in-depth articles related to the impact of digital
technologies on the arts, design and contemporary society. More than
2000 articles (interviews, reports and insights) produced
in recent years by Digicult, are collected in its archive section
collecting its content by author names and specific issues, providing a
unique online resource for researchers, academics, scholars or simply
enthusiasts.
<p>In recent years, Digicult has given special importance to the creation of
an internal circuit of professionals and an external network of contacts
and professional relationships with artists, designers, schools,
festivals, publishers, galleries, museums, media centers and
institutions dealing with research, development, production, and
exposition of creativity through digital technologies. So, using
specific communication tools such as the Web Platform, the Newsletter
Service and Social Networks, Digicult provides
several support activities to facilitate online communication and media
partnerships for cultural and artistic events. Working also as a of
press office, Digicult is able to furnish media coverage of events and
to develope special
editorial projects with external partners. <br></p><p>The Digicult
Agency promotes and organizes the work of selected international media
and A/V artists, presenting their work in Europe and worldwide. In the
last years, Digicult has been having the possibility to collaborate with
national and international partners, working with art and cultural
institutions, festivals and events, media centers, art galleries and
exhibitions, schools and academies and online platforms. Working side by
side with all its partners, Digicult Agency has been developing
exhibitions and concerts, special events, workshops, lectures and
screenings, seminars and round tables, involving also the Digicult
Network members and their backgrounds, theoretical studies and
professional experiences. This international Digicult Network is made of
selected professionals and academics, such as educators, journalists,
curators, artists, theorists, practioners and critics, with a track
record of research, academic and professional practice in the fields of
contemporary digital arts, design and culture. <br>
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<p>Today Digicult is a Cultural Association with an Editorial Board
(Marco Mancuso, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Bertram Niessen, Roberta Buiani
& Claudia D'Alonzo) and an Editorial Staff (Alessandra Saviotti,
Silvia Bertolotti & Giulia Tonucci), working in the field
of contemporary creativity and cultural avant-gardes dedicated to the
research at the crossroad between technologies, sciences and tactical
use of media; it is currently engaged in developing a new production
strategy, Digicult Publishing, whose goal is to be more active in the
publication of critical and theoretical essays commissioned to
international authors, university theses of special interest,
publications edited in collaboration with other national and
international publishers, as well as peer-reviewed publication with
institutional partners.</p>
<p>All these activities have allowed Digicult to initiate the development of a new
sustainable economy, operating
independently and autonomously from any form of institutional or
private support.</p>
---<br><br>Marco Mancuso | Digicult Director<br>Critic, Curator and Professor<br><a href="http://www.digicult.it" target="_blank">http://www.digicult.it</a>